Cover of scrapbook created by Charles N. Barstow. The front page reads, "All, Look! And Remember!" This large scrapbook contains images of the Civil War and 19th century America clipped from Leslie's and other mass-distributed 19th century papers....
Letter to wife Katherine from husband Benjamin Haught. He discusses his health and his hopes for a discharge. He was from Tyler County, Virginia/West Virginia. The letter is written from the U.S. General Hospital. Letter is a part of a large...
Letter was written from Island Hospital, Ward 3, in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Letter was written on "U.S. Christian Commission" stationery. Haught was from Tyler County, Virginia/West Virginia, and in the Union Army. Letter is a part of a large...
Brass bugle with castellated suture in bell section that confirms it as original to the 1860s. Dovetailed (zippered) seams are found on all Civil War-era bugles. (See North South Trader's Civil War, Vol. 29, no. 4, 2003, pg. 46, Fig. 14.) All...
J. W. Hooker was in the 177th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This note was written from HQ 177, O.V.I., by Lt. Col. W. H. Zimmeron to Capt. I. N. Rogers. The note excuses him from all duties "for two towers" for cleanliness.
Minie balls, Civil War belt buckle from "buck and ball" buckshot, World War II snaps from wartime maneuvers of General George Patton's army, all from the 1860s to the 1940s.
Silver plate, serving spoon, four place spoons, one teaspoon, two dinner forks and four luncheon fork. All engraved "Athenaeum." Mostly of the fiddle pattern.
Clothing accounts for 1st Sergeant W. Clinton Lewis, Sergeant Charles Thompson, and Sergeant Norman McLeod all of Company G, 60th Regiment, New York Volunteers.
Letter from George Franklin Robinson to his wife, Elvira Jane Griffin, following the Battle of Gettysburg, July 18, 1863. Robinson draws a map of his unit's march from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In the letter, he says:...
Map of G. F. Robinson unit's (and the Army of Northern Virginia's) march from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and back to Virginia. See TSLA Mf. 1969 for all G. F. Robinson letters.
Shadowbox containing Spencer bullets, .69 and .58 caliber bullets, pocket knives, and button pieces. All of the materials in the shadowbox were dug at Parkers Crossroads Battlefield in Henderson County, Tennessee.
Letter from 1st Lt. John A. Crutchfield, Co. F, 20th (Russell's) Tenn. Cav. Regt., part of Nathan Bedford Forrest's command in northern Mississippi in "Camp Near Oxford, Miss." Crutchfield states that "the Yanks have all gone back to Memphis" after...
Letter from 1st Lt. John A. Crutchfield, Co. F, 20th (Russell's) Tenn. Cav. Regt., part of Nathan Bedford Forrest's command in northern Mississippi . Crutchfield expresses confusion over where his unit will go next: Middle Tennessee or Memphis....
Letter written on United States Sanitary Commission stationery. Misemer states that he has been absent 6 months from the Federal lines while he was in Cahaba Prison in Alabama. He compares it to Purgatory. He goes on to state that all the boys from...
Written on U. S. Christian Commission stationery and titled "Horid Disaster." On the back of the letter he writes "lost, lost, all is lost." This letter explains the death of Sol's brother-in-law, Henry Marshall Misemer and two brothers, Levi and...
Rectangular shadowbox containing eight bullets, including two minie balls and one Williams "cleaner" bullet. All the projectiles were excavated in White County.
Postcard with an image of Confederate veteran Sgt. Isaac A. Shoun (1843-1923), 13th Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA, and Will Greever on the L & N railway on their way to the St. Louis World's Fair. The back of the card reads in part, "Dear Sarahwill leave...